Israel is embarking upon a more aggressive approach to the 'war onterror' that will include staging targeted killings [murders] in theUnited States and other friendly countries, former Israeliintelligence officials told United Press International [UPI].

The Israeli statements were confirmed by more than a half dozenformer and currently serving U.S. foreign policy and intelligenceofficials in interviews with United Press International.

But an official at the Israeli Embassy in Washington told UPI: "Thatis rubbish. It is completely untrue. Israel and the United Stateshave such a close and co-operative intelligence relationship,especially in the field of counter-terrorism, that the assertion isludicrous."

(Yeah, Right! The Mossad and CIA operate hand in hand. SATANIST peas in a pod! CIA AND MOSSAD worked TOGETHER on 9-11!)

With the appointment of Meir Dagan, the new Director of Israel'sMossad secret intelligence service, Sharon is preparing "a hugebudget" increase for the spy agency as part of "a tougher stance infighting global jihad [or war against all evils]," one Israeli official said.

Since Sharon became Israeli Prime Minister, Tel Aviv has mainlylimited its practice of targeted killings [murders] to the West Bankand Gaza because "no one wanted such operations on their territory,"a former Israeli intelligence official said.

Another former Israeli government official said that underSharon, "diplomatic constraints have prevented the Mossad fromcarrying out 'preventive operations' (targeted killings [murders]) onthe soil of friendly countries until now."

He said Sharon is "reversing that policy, even if it riskscomplications to Israel's bilateral relations."

A former Israeli military intelligence source agreed: "What Sharonwants is a much more extensive and tough approach to globalterrorism, and this includes greater operational maneuverability."

Does this mean assassinations on the soil of allies?

"It does," he said.

"Mossad is definitely being beefed up," a U.S. government officialsaid of the Israeli agency's budget increase. He declined to commenton the Tel Aviv's geographic expansion of targeted killings [murders].

An FBI spokesman also declined to comment, saying: "This is a policymatter. We only enforce federal laws."

(Gee you stupid FED BASTARD! Isn't MURDER against a FEDeral law???)

A congressional staff member with deep knowledge of intelligencematters said: "I don't know on what basis we would be able to protestIsrael's actions." He referred to the recent killing of Qaed SalimSinan al Harethi, a top Al-Qaida leader, in Yemen by a remotelycontrolled CIA drone.

(SIMPLE IT'S WAY PAST TIME TO DEFEND YOURSELF AGAINST THESE SATANISTS!)

"That was done on the soil of a friendly ally," the staffer said.

But the complications posed by Israel's new policy are real.

"Israel does not have a good record at doing this sort of thing,"said former CIA counter-terrorism official Larry Johnson.

He cited the 1997 fiasco where two Mossad agents were captured afterthey tried to assassinate Khaled Mashaal, a Hamas political leader,by injecting him with poison.

According to Johnson, the attempt, made in Amman, Jordan, caused apolitical crisis in Israeli-Jordan relations. In addition, becausethe Israeli agents carried Canadian passports, Canada withdrew itsAmbassador in protest, he said. Jordan is one of two Arab nations torecognize Israel. The other is Egypt.

At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said: "I haveno intention of stopping the activities of this government againstterror," according to a CNN report.

Former CIA officials say Israel was forced to free jailed Hamasfounder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and 70 other Jordanian and Palestinianprisoner being held in Israeli jails to secure the release of the twowould-be Mossad assassins.

(ISRAEL FUNDED HAMAS!!)

Phil Stoddard, former Director of the Middle East Institute, cited abotched plot to kill Ali Hassan Salemeh, the mastermind of the 1972Munich Olympics massacre. The 1974 attempt severely embarrassedMossad when the Israeli hit team mistakenly assassinated a Moroccanwaiter in Lillehammer, Norway.

Salemeh, later a CIA asset, was killed in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1976 bya car bomb placed by an Israeli assassination team, former U.S.intelligence officials said.

"Israel knew Salemeh was providing us with preventive intelligence onthe Palestinians and his being killed pi**ed off a lot of people,"said a former senior CIA official.

But some Israeli operations have been successful.

Gerald Bull, an Ontario-born U.S. citizen and designer of the Iraqisupergun -- a massive artillery system capable of launchingsatellites into orbit, and of delivering nuclear chemical orbiological payloads from Baghdad to Israel -- was killed in Belgiumin March 1990. The killing is still unsolved, but former CIAofficials said a Mossad hit team is the most likely suspect.

Bull worked on the supergun design -- codenamed Project Babylon --for 10 years, and helped the Iraqis develop many smaller artillerysystems. He was found with five bullets in his head outside hisBrussels apartment.

This Israeli government source explained that in the past Israel hasnot staged targeted killings [murders] in friendly countriesbecause "no one wanted such operations on their territory."

This has become irrelevant, he said.

Dagan, the new hard-driving Director of Mossad, will implement thenew changes, former Israeli government officials said.

Dagan, nicknamed "the gun," was Sharon's adviser on counter-terrorismduring the government of Netanyahu in 1996, former Israeli governmentofficials say. A former military man, Dagan has also undertakenextremely sensitive diplomatic missions for several of Israel's primeministers, former Israeli government sources said.

Former Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. Gal Luft, who served underDagan, described him as an "extremely creative individual -- creativeto the point of recklessness."

A former CIA official who knows Dagan said the new Mossad Directorknows "his foreign affairs inside and out," and has a "real killerinstinct."

Dagan is also "an intelligence natural" who has "a superb analyst notafraid to act on gut instinct," the former CIA official said.

Dagan has already removed Mossad officials whom he regards as "beingtoo conservative or too cautious" and is building up "a constituencyof senior people of the same mentality," one former long-time Israelioperative said.

Dagan is also urging that Mossad operatives rely less on secretsources and rely more on open information that is so plentifullyprovided on the Internet and newspapers.

"It's a cultural thing," one former Israeli intelligence operativeexplained. "Mossad in the past has put its emphasis on Humint (humanintelligence) and secret operations and has neglected the whole fieldof open media, which has become extremely important."

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A killing war between Israel's Mossad and Islamic fanatics came closer this weekend in Britain.The Israeli intelligence agency has sent four members of its kidon assassination squad to this country, to join fifteen other handpicked katsas, its relentless field agents.Their brief is to "disable" any of the "close to 50" British Muslims that the extremist Islamic group, Al-Muhajiroun, last week boasted were ready to carry out suicide missions similar to the one in Tel Aviv.Al-Muhajiroun spokesman, Asif Butt, said the 50 were "primed and ready to go".The threat was sufficient for Mossad to send its own termination squad to head off any further threat to Israel or to synagogues and other Jewish institutions in this country."In Mossad-speak 'disable' means taking them out permanently", said an MI5 source grimly. "We know from past experience that the kidon can make murder look like an accident. It is their speciality".Two of the kidon are women. They have been trained to be ready to sleep with someone to obtain vital information.Former Mossad chief Meir Amit said that "sex is a woman's weapon. Pillow talk is not a problem for her. But it takes a special kind of courage - to sleep with the enemy".Mossad often operates outside the law of this country - or any country.In the past, it has killed terrorists in the streets of Paris, Frankfurt and other European cities. In turn, it has lost over 100 agents in the past 50 years. Their memorial is a monument shaped like a human brain in a suburb of Tel Aviv.In Britain, they are banned from using guns or explosives. But they are equipped with long and short-blade knives and piano wire to strangle. They are also trained in the art of melting into a hostile community.Some of the team have spent time undercover in Arab capitals. They speak all the languages of the Middle East - and can pass as Islamic extremists to get close to the fanatics they have come to hunt down in Britain.Israel has openly made it clear it fears Britain has become a haven for extremist preachers and their network of organisations dedicated to sowing hatred. They cite how terrorists have been able to hire expensive lawyers to fight extradition.For years Khalid Fawwaz, wanted in the US for his alleged role in the bombing of the American embassy in Kenya, has used the courts in Britain for the past four years to avoid extradition. The expense of his fight has cost the taxpayer £428,000.Israel accepts that the majority of this country's 1.8 Muslims are law abiding. But it says that since the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, there has been an increase in extremists entering Britain under the guise of asylum seekers.The attack by two British suicide bombers in Tel Aviv has led to Mossad being ordered to "carry the war to our enemies", said a senior Israeli intelligence source.The Mossad team in Britain know their actions are sanctioned by their government.Rafi Eitan, a former director of operations, said: "we are like the official hangman or the doctor on Death Row who administers the lethal injection. We are simply fulfilling a sentence sanctioned by the prime minister of the day".Since he has come to office, it is known that Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has "sanctioned" a number of assassinations of terrorists who could not be brought before Israeli courts.Victor Ostrovsky, a former member of the assassination team said that kidon always use a weapon appropriate to the situation. "Strangulation if the target is to be killed at night. Sometimes an aerosol or a syringe in the jugular to deliver a fast-acting nerve agent that kills and leaves no trace".The decision to send in the Mossad came after urgent discussions between Ariel Sharon and Downing Street last weekend. Later, Mossad's new hardman chief, Meir Dagan, called Eliza Manningham-Buller, head of MI5, and told her that his men would co-operate closely with her agents.Next day, katsas from Mossad headquarters in Brussels had flown into Heathrow. Twenty-four hours later, the four-man kidon had arrived on an El Al flight from Israel. Supporting them are Mossad yahalomin - specialists at bugging phones and buildings.Their targets include a Leicester-based charity, Interpal. It has been accused of fund-raising for Hamas and is currently under investigation by the Charity Commissioners. Interpal insists its fund-raising is "purely humanitarian".Although the Home Office has officially banned 20 terror groups, Mossad believes many are still operating behind Islamic front organisations.The deployment of such a massive Mossad team is the first time it has operated in such numbers in this country since 1987.That year, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ordered their operations to be shut down after a "honey pot" operation to kidnap Mordechai Vananu, the whistleblower who revealed secrets about Israel's nuclear arsenal. He fled to London.Mossad traced him and a woman agent enticed Vananu - on the promise of sex - to go with her to Rome. A Mossad team was waiting there to drug and spirit Vananu back to Israel. He is still serving a life sentence.Now, united in common cause, Mossad and MI5 are burrowing deep into the closed world of Islamic fundamentalism in this country.Former operations chief Rafi Eitan, who has worked secretly in Britain said: "there has always been a love-hate relationship with British intelligence. But after the suicide bomber attack last week, that is over".Nevertheless, the Mossad team will virtually operate on its own rules."The one rule which overrides all others is: kill or be killed. That is why the kidon are here. They can make an assassination look like the perfect accident", said an Israeli intelligence source.SIDEBAR:· Mossad. Israel's prime intelligence service. Formally known as Mossad le Aliyah Beth. Employs some 1,500 full-time staff. Less than 100 are field agents. But has an estimated one million informers within the Jewish Diaspora.· Kidon. Mossad's state-backed assassination team. Based in the Negev Desert. Current strength said to be 48, six of them women. All are in their late twenties and superbly fit. Usually work in teams of four.Their successes….· Dr Gerald Bull. Canadian scientist and then the world's greatest expert of ballistics. Offered his services to Saddam Hussein. On March 22, 1990, a kidon team assassinated Bull in the doorway of his Brussels apartment. Mossad's Department of Psychological Warfare planted the story that Bull had been murdered Iraqi agents because he reneged on his deal with Saddam.· Faithi Shkaki. Head of Islamic Jihad in 1995. Returning from Libya, a kidon unit were waiting for him in Malta. As he went shopping for presents for his wife and children back in Damascus, kidon struck. Shkaki was shot six times in the head as he emerged from a shop with his wrapped gifts. The kidon escaped undetected.· Ali Hassan Salameh. Known as "The Red Prince". The man behind the Munich massacre of the Israeli athletes in 1972. Hid for years in West Beirut until the day a kidon team, one a woman, placed a car bomb on his route to work. He was blown to bits.…. and failures.· Yasser Arafat. On six separate occasions, Mossad tried to assassinate the PLO leader in Lebanon and Tunisia. Each time Arafat escaped at the last moment. There was a suspicion in Mossad that a mole had leaked their plans. But it was never proven.· Khalid Meshel. Fanatical Hamas leader. Lived near King Hussein's palace in Amman, Jordan. Father of seven children. In September, 1997, a kidon team tried to inject him on a street with a new lethal nerve agent. They failed. The uproar led to an international outcry. The kidon returned to Israel but were transferred to border patrol work.